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Kathy Ensor

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Katherine Bennett Ensor is an American statistician interested in spatiotemporal data, environmental statistics, financial modeling, and risk management. She is a professor of statistics at Rice University, where she was the chair of the statistics department from 1999 to 2013. She is vice president of the American Statistical Association for 2016 to 2019.[1]

Ensor earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Arkansas State University in 1981 and 1982. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1986 from Texas A&M University;[1] her dissertation, supervised by H. Joseph Newton, was Some Results in Autoregressive Modeling.[2] She has been on the Rice faculty since 1987.[1]

Ensor's results have included the discovery of a correlation between ozone and heart attacks,[3] and of geographic patterns in severe asthma attacks in schoolchildren.[4]

She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2017-10-27
  2. ^ Kathy Ensor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Rice University analysis links ozone levels, cardiac arrest", Houston Chronicle, February 18, 2013
  4. ^ Williams, Mike (March 13, 2017), 'Preventable' asthma attacks in Houston cost millions, Texas Medical Center